Exxaro on COVID-19

Exxaro on COVID-19

On 31 December 2019, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported a cluster of pneumonia cases in Wuhan City, China. ‘Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2’ (SARS-CoV-2) was confirmed as the causative agent of what we now know as ‘Coronavirus Disease 2019’ (COVID-19). Since then, the virus has spread to more than 100 countries, including South Africa. Since then, a state of national disaster has been declared in South Africa. As Exxaro we are closely monitoring all updates and advice from the relevant organisations, including the National Department of Health, the Department of Minerals Resources and Energy and Minerals Council South Africa. As a result, we are taking several precautionary measures to ensure the health and safety of our employees, customers, clients, service providers and other stakeholders.

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HERE ARE OUR VARIOUS INITIATIVES TO CURB THE SPREAD OF THE VIRUS:

Our Grootegeluk mine partnered with the department of Health in Lephalale to conduct screenings o‌n motorists travelling in and out of the province as many head back to work under level 4 restrictions.

Our Digital and connected mine, Belfast, have provided much needed assistance to the community by supplying them with food parcels.

All our entry and exit points at the Business Units and HQ, have been clearly marked with standard guidelines to protect all employees, contractors and visitors as we, under level 4 restrictions head back to work.

At Leeuwpan, we have built a walk through sanitizing tunnel for our employees,contractors and site visitors to get santized thoroughly, further decreasing the spread of the virus at the mines.

We conduct screenings at the facilities, checking for temperature and other tell tale signs so we detect the virus as soon as possible.

As a way to curb the spread of COVID-19, Matla Coal Mine, has installed hand sanitisers on all the employee buses (which transport the employees to and from work) which are disinfected hourly.

At our Belfast digitally connect coal mine, a dedicated medical practitioner addressed the team on COVID-19 interventions, and ensured that all participants kept 1-meter apart - driving the importance of social distancing.

As seen with our ECC mine and across all the business units in our operational communities, we have taken extra care all around by ensuring regular sanitizing and cleaning for the safety of our essential services employees, who have been reporting for duty during the lockdown period.

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